Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-04-05
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ing last evening, but transacted no business
of especial importance.
EUGENE KENNEDY, the champion boy
skater, has closed an engagement with
Kennedy & Whites circus.
THERE are a number of theatrical peo-
pie in the city, several companies having
come to put in Holy Week here.
T. NJ GARyIN and J. G. Hutchinson,
lawyers, have dissolved partnership. Mr..
Garyin will remain at the old office.
MARTIN THORNTON has had printed for
| the Cafe Brunswick, one of the neatest
menu cards ever gotten up in the city.
HOTEL accommodations are so very
scarce in the city, that many people are
compelled to seek private boarding houses.
RESERVED seats go on sale for the
! Devils Auction" at Banners, this morn
ing, and there will be a grand rush for
| them.
| FREDERICK HAPPY was yesterday APP
: pointed administrator Of the estate of w.
A. Schairer, deceased. Bond, 81, 900; Con-
rad Stifel surity.
THE Shriver residence, on North Main
street, has been sold to j. J. Jones and w.
! l.. Glessner, for $40, 500. The purchasers
will occupy the residence.
THE regular monthly meeting Of the
WOmen's Union Benevolent Society, will
he held in the Y. NC. A. parlOrs tO-mOr-
row afternoon at 2:30 o'clock.
The commercial tourists are kicking
like mules on the big rates charged them
for excess of baggage on the railroads, but
they can't help it, you know.
THE short line has been put on by the
Citizens Railway Company, and is a great
improvement, as ears on the lower end OF
the road now pass every seven minutes.
THE funeral of Mrs. Barbara West will
take place Wednesday afternoon ut 3
o'clock from her late residence, No. 100
Eighteenth street. Inlerment Mt Peninsula
cemetery.
The work ofre- modelling the building,
l22l Market street, which is to be Occu-
pied by Geo. l.. burst, was commenced
yesterday. A large annex will be built to
the store room.
A NUMBER of gentlemen, principally
stockholders in the Wheeling Park, have
in contemplation the erection of large
summer hotel on the Park grounds. This
will be popular move.
THERE are several supposed dramatic
newspaper correspondents who lead the
applause at the Grand Opera House in fine
shape. They always attempt TO make an
actor do more than they are paid for.
THE steamer Elaine sailed out of port
Yesterday afternoon with q little German
band on board playing lively tune. They
are going TO subdue other communities
with their own peculiar music.
In the last issue of his Parkersburg In
der, Chanting Smith deyotes whole page of
space to the drummers, whom he calls the
ANGELS of Commerce. Some Of the
Wheeling boys receive complimentary no
tees
BISHOP PETERKIN confirmed q class of
fifteen Mt ST. Luke's Church Sunday even
ing. He preached an excellent sermon,
and his address to the newly confirmed,
on Personal Religion" was deeply inter
esting.
MEssRs. SHEEHAN K COYNE, with
| their company arrived in the city yester
day and will spend Holy week here. They
open in "Grogan's Elevation, ut the Grand
Opera House, next Monday evening, for
weeks engagement.
SIGNOR D'AURIA's operate class will
produce "Stabat Mater" at Banners
music hall, next Monday evening, it
having been postponed from last Thurs
day evening. Those who received invita-
lions are expected to be present Monday
evening.
WILLIAM HAGGERTY, OF DunstOrt,
Washington county, Pa, died Sunday af-
ternOOn OF consumption, aged twenty-eight
years. His funeral will take place Wednes-
day afternoon, the interment to take place
in West Alexander Cemetery.
WALTER BURKE who has charge OF the
greenhouse ut Mt. Calvary Cemetery, has
everything in excellent shape for furnish
ing beautiful flowers and ported plants, a
large and select assortment of which he has
constantly on hand, from the rarest to the
cOmmOnest.
A LARGE audience greeted "Nohody's
Child, at the Grand Opera House last
evening and appeared pleased with the
performance, Judging from the frequent
applause they bestowed upon the actors.
Francis I.abadie is good aS Joe, the Wait,
and the rain scene at the end of the first
act was quite realistic.
A TOUGH character named Bates assault
ell well-tO-dO farmer named Peter Ash in
DOddridge county, near Clarksburg, Sat
urday. He beat Ash with 4 club, and
having left him for dead, escaped. The
wounded man il a brother OF Rev. ID. /.
Ash, pastor of Wesley NJ. F. Chapel, in the
Eighth ward, and the latter will leave to-
day for the home Of his brother.
ASSISTANT Adjutant General Crago, of
the q. A r., goes TO Terro Alta to-day TO
muster in a new post, No. 81. Another
post will be mustered in at St. Mary's on
the l4th inst. by Col. Romeo Freer, and
one at Davis on the w. Va Central and
Pittsburg Railroad, about the 18th inst by
Col. Dewitt J. Piedmont The Grand
Army is booming up in West Virginia.
CAPTAIN THOMAS G. MOORE, we'll
known tuTfman, died on Friday last at his
home in Crab Orchard, Ky, from pneu-
mOnia, aged Seyenty-nine years. He had
trained and developed more celebrated
horses than any other trainer in America.
Capt. Moore was former resident of
Wheeling, being raised here. He left here
about the time the war began, aud will be
remembered by many Of our older citizens.
LARGE crowds continue 10 flock to No.
40 Twelfth street, MeIain's Block, where
the Bohemian glaSs-workefs are still
giving exhibitions every afternoon from .
till 4, and evening from till O'Clock.
The work is interesting and every visitor
is given handsome present in the shape
Of an article made by the glassworkers.
The glass engine Fairy Queen" is much
admired. Ii certainly is a wonderful
piece of machinery, being made entirely
of glass.